Fastlink

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

faster version of LINKAGE

4.1P (July 4, 1999)

• Cottingham
• Gupta
• Idury
• Schaffer ( schaffer@helix.nih.gov)
• Shriram
• Ann Becker (collaborators for version 4)
• Dan Geiger (collaborators for version 4)

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Schaffer/fastlink.html
• ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/fastlink (since Aug 6, 1996) or ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/linkage_and_mapping/FASTLINK/fastlink

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UNIX, VMS, MS-DOS,.. and can also run in parallel on shared memory UNIX machines

• Cottingham, Idury, Schaffer (1993), “Fast sequential genetic linkage computation”, American Journal of Human Genetics, 53(1):252-263
• Schaffer, Gupta, Shriram, Cottingham (1994), “Avoiding recomputation in linkage analysis”, Human Heredity, 44:225-237
• online README files (version 3.0P, december 95).
• Dwarkadas, Schaffer, Cottingham, Cox, Keleher, Zwaenepoel, “Parallelization of general linkage analysis problems”
• Gupta, Schaffer, Cox,Zwaenepoel, “Integrating parallelization strategies for linkage analysis”
• Schaffer, “Faster linkage analysis computations for pedigrees with loops or unused alleles”
• Becker, Geiger, Schaffer, “Automatic selection of loop breakers for genetic linkage analysis”, Human Heredity
• Becker, Bar-Yehuda, Geiger, “Random algorithms for the loop cutset problem”
• Schaffer, “Loops in FASTLINK”
• Schaffer, “The mystery of (the) unknown”
• Schaffer, “Pedigree traversal in FASTLINK”

LINKAGE